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10 Dollars
| Issuer | Board of Commissioners of Currency, Singapore |
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| Year | 1976-1980 |
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| Reference(s) | P#11a |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents an intaglio-printed urban landscape of Singapore's public housing estate, with multi-storey HDB residential blocks rising amid landscaped greenery — an evocation of the nation's "Garden City" vision. A Merlion statue appears at lower left within an ornate guilloche border, while the Singa the Lion figure is set at upper right within a decorative cartouche. Denomination numerals "$10" appear in guilloche surrounds at both lower corners. |
| Reverse lettering | SINGAPORE $10 $10 THOMAS DE LA RUE & COMPANY, LIMITED. |
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The Board of Commissioners of Currency was Singapore's sole note-issuing authority from 1967 until the Monetary Authority of Singapore absorbed that function in 2002. This orchid series, introduced in the early 1970s, was the second full definitive issue for the independent republic and marked a deliberate shift away from the transitional Singaporean dollar notes that had carried over design DNA from the Board of Commissioners of Currency, Malaya and British Borneo.
Thomas De La Rue printed the series throughout its run, a relationship that predated independence. The P#11a designation covers a date range suggesting the plates saw sustained use across at least four print years, which occasionally produces minor shade variations between early and late printings.